Cambodia - Building a Future

Noun Saroeun, 42, is one of the poorest farmers in Thmey Village in Cambodia. She has seven children and worries about not being able to feed her family with the harvest from her small rice paddy. The family often has had no rice for six months at a time. (Rice is the staple of most diets in Cambodia.) She has depended on bamboo and mushrooms from the forest to feed the children. They became poorer and poorer. The LWF taught Noun new farming methods. Her crop did well and LWF proposed that Noun might also raise chickens. She built a proper shelter for her 20 LWF chickens and is no longer worried about a food shortage. Her children have ample rice, eggs and chicken, and are in school! Thank you, LWF!